For a while, #MeToo stories popped up in Vietnam. Yet the movement failed to take off. A year later, though, more discussion of sexual assault and harassment is taking place, after two cases that took place in residential lifts drove home the message that it can happen to anyone.
A recent ad campaign for an e-payment system in Singapore featured a Chinese Singaporean actor in brownface as a Malay woman and an Indian man. Responses have since demonstrated the need for deeper understanding and discussion of racism and power in the city-state.
Gunung berapi Gunung Sinabung telah meletus selama beberapa tahun, menyebabkan ratusan penduduk desa mengungsi. Sekarang mereka terperangkap antara rumah pengungsi yang disediakan pemerintah atau kembali ke rumah lama mereka yang berada di Zona Merah Gunung Berapi.
A Rohingya refugee stuck in limbo in Indonesia reflects upon his journey and the denial of freedom of movement to refugees around the world.
Pannir Selvam, warganegara Malaysia, telah diizinkan penangguhan pelaksanaan hukuman sehari sebelum dijadualkan digantung di Singapura. Ini memberi keluarganya sedikit harapan, tetapi rejim hukuman mati berkaitan dadah di Singapura melangkaui persoalan keluarga.
Pannir Selvam ialah banduan akhir di Singapura. Tarikh hukumannya adakah pada Mei 2019, tetapi pada saat akhir penangguhan pelaksanaan diizinkan. Kakaknya Sangkari berkongsi kisah adiknya dan meminta sokongan untuk menyelamatkan nyawanya.
Malaysian Pannir Selvam was granted a stay of execution just one day before he was due to hang in Singapore. It’s given his family hope, but Singapore’s capital punishment regime for drug offences is about more than just individual families.
Pannir Selvam is on death row in Singapore. He was due to be executed in May 2019, but managed to obtain a last-minute stay of execution. In this piece, his older sister Sangkari tells his story and makes a plea for support to save his life.
Shaping awareness of what it means to be a feminist in Thailand is not without its challenges, especially in a context where men cringe at the word. Feminists are threatening to undermine the status quo that assumes that women are not to question men.
In 2017, thousands of homeless, urban poor took over empty homes in Pandi, in the Philippine province of Bulacan. They have since built their own community there, making decisions as a collective and keeping up the occupation despite threats and intimidation.
Cambodia’s brick factories are supplying the nation’s construction boom. But despite documented abuses, the industry continues to rely on the labour of disposable workers—including children—their indebtedness and scant government oversight.
Thailand’s 1954 Military Service Act states that all Thai males are required to serve in the military at the age of 21, even though there are ways to get out of it. Some are now arguing that conscription should be cut down, reformed, or maybe even abolished.
Months after regime change in Malaysia, the new government began to consider the question of abolishing capital punishment. Their deliberations have caused some controversy, but the case of one death row inmate raises questions about the potential of wrongful executions.
Beberapa bulan selepas perubahan rejim di Malaysia, kerajaan baharu mempertimbangkan pemansuhan hukuman mati. Perbincangan ini mencetuskan beberapa kontroversi, namun kes seorang banduan yang dihukum mati membangkitkan persoalan tentang kemungkinan berlaku hukuman yang tersilap.
新加坡正面对着人口老化，还有年长者收入不稳定的双重问题。到目前为止，深入了解这些问题的一大挑战，是分析家无法明确，人们要达到基本生活水平的所需收入到底是多少。
Memandangkan persetujuan yang padu dan luas bahawa kita mempunyai masalah-masalah rumit yang perlu ditangani, masanya adalah tepat untuk kita menumpukan perbincangan ke arah mengenalpasti apakah yang membentuk kehidupan yang memuaskan di Singapura.
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长达 24 年的残忍占领（当时，暗中强制避孕被视为消灭帝汶人的工具）过后，重建家庭并管控孩童疾病、粮食及干净水源有限和疫苗接种率偏低等问题，是极为艰钜的挑战。
In 2011, thousands of ethnic Hmong Christians gathered in a district in northwest Vietnam to demand religious freedom. Their demonstration was eventually met by Vietnamese state security forces, and the area has been largely closed to visitors since.
Warga Malaysia dan Singapura sentiasa bertekak tentang asal usul beberapa makanan, membandingkan budaya makanan jalanan dan mengusik sesama mereka. Tetapi, memahami pengalaman para penjaja dalam mengurus perniagaan mereka mendedahkan beberapa cabaran semasa yang dihadapi di kedua-dua negara.
